Content:

(PaPaPa, AbAb, E, Ho, PC, APAP, LLL, VVV, SSS, NNN, AA, DDD, MMM) Very strong pagan worldview where high school students are driven by desires for sex, alcohol, drugs, and pleasure, some strong mocking of God and Jesus, brief environmentalist, homosexual, and politically correct elements used for humor, plus a strong Anti-American representation of police being crude, vulgar, and providing teenagers with alcohol and drugs, with repeated car theft by police; at least 201 obscenities and four profanities; very strong violence includes fights, stabbing, shootings, explosions, one man is shot in the groin and attempts to recover the portion of his anatomy that was shot off; very strong sexual content and references includes multiple uses of phallic imagery and sexual innuendo, brief but graphic scene of three naked high school students fornicating, an additional scene of people fornicating; excessive nudity includes multiple uses of phallic imagery; big party with a massive supply of alcohol and associated drunken behavior, plus providing alcohol to teenagers; major scenes of drug use and abuse including scenes that present drug trips as humorous events and providing drugs to teenagers; and, stealing, horrid representation of teachers being drug dealers and desiring sex with students.

Summary:

21 JUMP STREET is an action comedy version of the late ’80s TV show. Two bumbling cops go undercover in a high school to nab a guy who’s selling a designer drug to students. 21 JUMP STREET, which mocks Jesus Christ and Christianity in some scenes, contains abundant foul language, crude sexual content, explicit excessive nudity, and comical scenes about substance abuse by teenagers.

Review:

21 JUMP STREET is a prime example of a police comedy finding humor in all the wrong places: sex, drugs, crime, extreme vulgarity, and the mocking of Jesus Christ. It’s the kind of movie every young person should avoid, but won’t.

The setup itself is funny. A nerd (Jonah Hill) and a not-too-bright football hero (Channing Tatum) graduate from high school and go into training as policemen. The nerd helps the jock pass written tests, and the jock helps the nerd get through physical training exercises. They graduate and are made partners. After making fools of themselves in their first arrest, they’re assigned to go undercover as high school students. Because they couldn’t remember their own undercover names, the jock winds up in the nerd’s classes and vice versa. This is a great set up for comedy. Unfortunately, even in the set up, the language is gutter talk and the humor is extremely disrespectful of police.

The post they’re assigned to is located at 21 Jump Street – in an old church named “The Aroma of Christ Church” turned into an undercover police headquarters. The police captain goes up to the pulpit to give a very vulgar speech to his new recruits. An electric sign behind him reads “God is Love” and a cross with an image of Jesus on it becomes the butt of several jokes. The nerd cop even gets to his knees and says a vulgar prayer while his partner laughs at him in the background.

Assigned to find the school’s drug dealer and his sources, they quickly discover the dealer is the school’s popular environmentalist. To “nail” him they are forced to buy some drugs and use them in his presence. The movie uses their resulting drug trip as an opportunity for humor. To continue their quest to catch the bad guys, the undercover policemen hold a party. They buy lots of alcohol and raid the police headquarters for marijuana and other drugs to serve their guests. The debauched party includes sex, nudity, and violence.

21 JUMP STREET is funny. It could actually do well because it provides ample entertainment value to people with very low moral standards. Sadly, 21 JUMP STREET presents a pathetic view of America’s schools and police. Teachers are involved in drug dealing and making sexual advances to students. Police are shown as crude and vulgar, as well as supplying teenagers with alcohol and drugs. 21 JUMP STREET also makes light of drug use and is laden with 201 obscenities and four profanities. The jokes making fun of Jesus and Christianity are also abhorrent.

Parents should be extremely wary because this movie will be talked about in schools. In fact, there will be peer pressure put on “Christian” teenagers to see this movie. Parents will be told, “It’s just a comedy. I don’t take it seriously. I’ll never do any of that stuff.”

The truth is there are drugs in schools. There are parties where teenagers drink, use drugs, and engage in violence. There are children killed at such parties. The author of this review knew a mother whose son was killed at such a party because the other partiers thought it was fun (when they were drunk).

This movie was made by Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). Before the creation of the MPAA ratings system, Columbia and MGM voluntarily abided by the Motion Picture Production Code. It contained standards like:

“Illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity concerning the use of, or traffic in, such drugs; nor shall scenes be approved which show the use of illegal drugs, or their effects, in detail.”

And:

“Obscenity in word, gesture, reference, song, joke or by suggestion (even when likely to be understood only by part of the audience) is forbidden.”

Columbia and MGM would never have made 21 JUMP STREET when Hollywood had these voluntary production standards.

Columbia and MGM are not sleazy independent studios. They’re two of the proudest names in the history of moviemaking. MGM made GONE WITH THE WIND, QUO VADIS, BEN HUR, KING OF KINGS and DOCTOR ZHIVAGO.

Is America better off with this comical R-rated version of 21 JUMP STREET (the original series was created by the late Stephen J. Cannell who created several entertaining, positive shows like BARETTA, THE ROCKFORD FILES, THE GREATEST AMERICAN HERO, and THE A-TEAM)? Will the world have a better opinion of Americans?

Please pray that this movie doesn’t do well. Encourage everyone who claims any respect for Jesus Christ not to support 21 JUMP STREET. We live in a free society where producers can make such movies, but we are free to encourage everyone we know to avoid buying tickets.

In Brief:

21 JUMP STREET is a prime example of a police comedy finding humor in all the wrong places, from sex and obscenity to drugs and mocking Christianity. Two bumbling policemen, who knew one another in high school, are assigned to undercover duty as high school students. Their attempts to locate the school’s drug dealers and suppliers lead to them taking drugs themselves. Next, they host a big and very wild party where they supply teenagers with lots of alcohol and drugs. Can they nab the guy who’s making designer drugs for high school students?

21 JUMP STREET is a comical version of the popular late ’80s TV show that launched Johnny Depp’s career. Regrettably, it mocks Jesus Christ and Christianity. It also presents an absolutely shameful image of both policemen and teachers. The dialogue in 21 JUMP STREET is extremely vulgar and obscene, but the movie is humorous enough that it could be popular with young people. This is a movie parents should take a stand against their children seeing, even though the humor may be popular. 21 JUMP STREET presents a pathetic view of American life. It’s abhorrent.

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